Challenges in Designing a User Friendly Wireless Site

Per Gartner Group, “by 2004, companies will have to support a minimum of 50 different mobile device profiles and 10 different wireless network interfaces at once…”

Different web-enabled wireless devices have different input, output, hardware, software, gateway, network, and browser capabilities. In order for a web server or web-based application to provide optimized content to these devices, it must know their capabilities. Recently two new compatible standards have been created for describing the capabilities: Composite Capabilities / Preferences Profile (CC/PP) created by the W3C and User Agent Profile (UAProf) created by the WAP Forum.

Arkdom PLUS Entry Edition is a free, fully-functional product developed by Web Commerce Group (www.wc-group.com) that provides the capability information of the requesting agent when you pass HTTP requests via Java based APIs from within your program.